RAJESH RANJAN

CURRENT POSITION

M.A.Sc. student, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.

EMAIL

rajesh.ranjan@mail.utoronto.ca

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2010-2015 Integrated Dual Degree in Process Engineering and Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), India (Institute Silver Medalist)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Australian National University Summer Research Scholarship: Worked on scaling up Genetic Algorithms in the Hadoop Mapreduce architecture, 2014-2015.
• Mitacs Globalink Research Award (University of Alberta): Worked on incorporation of intuition into process models, namely, bitumen upgrading and welding, 2014.
• University of Queensland Summer Research Scholarship: Worked on digital construction of a model of bacterial cellulose network, 2013-2014.
• Merit-Cum Means Scholarship, IIT Roorkee for continued academic excellence, 2011-2015.

RESEARCH PROJECT

My research project involves building a device that directly measures the force-distance relationship between the vesicle and a surface. Shape of the contact zone plays an important role in the process of interaction. Reflection Interference Contrast Microscopy (RICM) will be used to measure this shape. The device can thus be used to measure interaction forces of the orders of nanoNewton along with information on the separation and shape of the contact zone.

PUBLICATIONS

Ranjan, R., Talati, A., Ho, M. Bharmal, H., Bavdekar, V.A., Prasad, V., Mendez, P. Multivariate Data Analysis of Gas-Metal Arc Welding Process Multivariate Data Analysis of Gas-Metal Arc Welding Process, IFAC-PapersOnLine 48 (8), 463-468

CONFERENCES

Ranjan, R. (October, 2014), Digital Construction of in-silico model of Bacterial Cellulose Network. International Conference on "Polymeric Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Biodiagnostics"

OTHER INTERESTS

Painting, Reading and Poetry
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